Renji Ishibashi
Birthday: 1941-08-09
Place of Birth: Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
The Bear Storm
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...
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The New Virgin Story
A love triange arises between a virgin, a stripper, and a mysterious girl...
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Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...
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Magino Village: A Tale
The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the c...
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Hana
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...
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Audition
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife fr...
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Into the Faraway Sky
A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this...
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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars ...
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Dead or Alive
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shi...
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Life of Don Matsugoro
Children's movie about a dog that can type messages into a word processor. When his owner is kidnapp...
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47 Ronin
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a ...
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Spring Snow
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the...
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Gozu
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder take...
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Gemini
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...
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Sukiyaki Western Django
A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to j...
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Tales of the Unusual
A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commu...
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The Bird People in China
Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After ...
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into ...
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Flower & Snake
The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to esca...
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One Missed Call 2
A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are get...
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on ...
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The Great Yokai War
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great w...
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The Shootist: Final Episode
Matsushita decides to make a new journey by meeting a fateful woman, Askako, while being chased by a...
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Outrage
When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he t...
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Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
In 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ...
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Crossfire
Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anyt...
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Yakuza Demon
Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. The two respect and ...
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The Watcher in the Attic
A shiftless resident in a boarding house spends his days crawling in the attic and spying on the ren...
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20th Century Boys 3: Redemption
The final showdown, and the final reveal. who is Friend? How can he be stopped?...
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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...
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Okiku and the World
Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...
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The Ramen Girl
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction...
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Railroad Man
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his...
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Silver Mask
Sabine is able to transform into a silver superhero through the power of the Ring of Nibelungen. She...
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Fruits of Passion
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experi...
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I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinj...
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Kunoichi Financial Road
Sacho the financial ninja saves the common folk from corporate villains with the use of her "financi...
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Shura's Barbarian King
Fumihiko Saizonoji , a man who lost everything in the plot of a bank and a general contractor when h...
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Oshûkatsu
Shinichi and Chikako Ohara have been married for 50 years. After Shinichi retired from his job, he h...
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Phone Call to the Bar
In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with h...
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Two Magical Nights
This 'Young V-Cinema' film was created for young people, turning from the action of Toei V-cinema. ...
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Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
Tsukasa travels to his home world of the World of Decade, where he discovers the origin of his power...
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Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010
Serving as the true ending to Kamen Rider Decade and revealing the origins of Kamen Rider W, this mo...
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Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has...
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Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice
A decadent count in 1920′s Japan becomes obsessed with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade. He...
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White-Collar Worker Kintaro
Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working a...
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The Young Blood Typhoon
On the way home from a small assault incident at a love hotel in Tokyo, Shuntaro Katagiri playfully ...
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Baian Fujieda the Assassin
An adaptation of the Shotaro Ikenami novels, set in the historical Edo period, and centered on Fujie...
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The Woman with Red Hair
Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Ke...
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The Machine Gun Dragon
Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun an...
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The Assassination of Ryoma
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tr...
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The Triple Cross
Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who...
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A Chorus of Angels
Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she take...
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Ronin-gai
Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attem...
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised...
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Detective Office 5
In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522 embark ...
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan....
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Castle Under Fiery Skies
The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga's (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, whe...
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An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka
In-depth look at the twilight years, spent training apprentices, of temple builder Nishioka Tsunekaz...
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The Code
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective...
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Revolver LILY
In 1924 Yuri killed 57 people as a spy before going underground as the madam of a small brothel. The...
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Red Colored Elegy
Uninvolved with the political movements of the time, Ichiro and Sachiko hope for something better, b...
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Kumamoto Stories
Jidai-geki period / folklore type stories that were comissioned by the Kumamoto prefacture of Kyushu...
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Lost Lovers
A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female per...
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The Oil-Hell Murder
The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie
Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases fo...
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The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career....
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Strawberry Night
Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko do...
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The Law of Hell
At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner...
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Kikaider Reboot
In the near future, the brilliant Dr. Komyoji is enlisted to lead the ARK Project—a scientific endea...
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Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's...
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The Enchantment
A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. ...
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Winter Rose
Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted del...
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Darkness in the Light
A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagan...
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Shadow Hunters
In the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate situation, t...
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Ikebukuro West Gate Park SP
This special takes place three years after the end of the original series. Makoto is homeless as a r...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
The super unconventional lawyer is back! Our new friends are comic book girls! And the biggest enem...
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The Inferno
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mothe...
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Making of Gemini
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini"....
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Homeland
Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a sma...
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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II...
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Kamen Rider: THE FIRST
Takeshi Hongo is a man of extraordinary intellect, but his promising future is about to be malicious...
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History of Jirocho Shimizu
A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family,...
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I Don't Have a Grave!
An actress visits a university hospital for research and mistakenly believes she has only six months...
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Ginji - The Slasher
In prison for 50 years after massacring his corrupt workmates with a samurai sword in 1945, Ginji So...
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Cape Nostalgia
Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her ...
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Someday
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's li...
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Alive
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However,...
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Silver Spoon
Ooejo Agricultural High School is located in Hokkaido. Most students are from families involved in a...
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How to Find Happiness
Toshihide works as a doctor at a clinic located by the sea. One day, he meets Ako. She looks exactly...
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Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series....
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Pale Moon
Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job...
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Haw
Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of...
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The Fallen Angel
The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since th...
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Sakuran
Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwa...
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Strangers in the City
Former high school teacher Kazuo Hatano (Toru Nakamura) reunites 12 years later with Masako Tezuka (...
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The Brain Man
A seemingly random series of bombings in a provincial city. The latest target is a public bus route....
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A Good Husband
The heart wrenching love story between a married couple. The jobless husband cheats on his wife and ...
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Climbing to Spring
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the...
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Eight Ranger
Set within the devastated city of Eight City, the Eight Rangers protect the city and go against the ...
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Dora-heita
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, us...
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Ninja Kids!!!
The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. Durin...
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Angel's Share
A strange duo, Minko and Hiroto, who believe themselves to be angels, throw out fashion massage leaf...
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Half a Confession
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a ta...
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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics ...
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Miracle in Four Days
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at th...
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Ready to Shoot
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho...
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Hero
After six years away, D.A. Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) returns to his former Josai branch of the Tok...
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Pickpocket
Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: S...
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Tokyo!
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges f...
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Parade
The story of a strange living situation in a 2LDK apartment in suburban Tokyo. There are five reside...
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Where The Legend Lives
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the anc...
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I'll Give It My All ... Tomorrow
41-year-old Shizuo Daikoku (Shinichi Tsutsumi) suddenly quits his job at a company to become a manga...
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Graveyard of Honor
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fe...
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East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights
Fukano, an elderly novelist who grew up in the mountains of Tokyo, met a young woman, Kana, for the ...
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Who Do I Choose?
A computer error puts entry level workers Nobuko (Miho Nakayama) and Junko (Chieri Ito) in charge of...
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Perfect Education 6
Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mr...
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Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...
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Time Trip App
In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo....
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A Samurai Movie Rhapsody: Filming the Ultimate Swordfight
This is a “Movie in a Movie” like no other ever before. Kyoei, a historical film studio in Kyoto (Mo...
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The Whispering of the Gods
Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods thro...
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Assassin's Target: Iemitsu
A vicious plot that would change the course of Japanese history is set in motion when assassins cons...
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Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for alm...
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Torso
Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her siste...
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Year One in the North
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, ...
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Closed Note
Kae Horii moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, s...
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The Firefly
Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decad...
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A Story of Modern Chivalry
A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of reveng...
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Moment of Demon
Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a ne...
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The Homeless
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths a...
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Agitator
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long befor...
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Samurai Hustle
During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku r...
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Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto
The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of ...
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The Broken Commandment
At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...
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My Happy Marriage
An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander...
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Farewell to the Ark
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and ...
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Kanei Chronicles
From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more ...
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Kitamura Tokoku: My Winter Song
This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attemp...
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This Country’s Sky
In suburban Tokyo in 1945, years of war and concentrated air raids by US forces have left the city i...
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The Lion Standing in the Wind
Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He...
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Eros Eterna
A woman believing to be a legendary immortal nun attracts people looking for answers to their life s...
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The Goblin of Mt. Kurama
The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades...
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of the...
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Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories 4
During a gathering of detectives, Satake is the only one not indulging in the hospitality of a wealt...
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The Human Trust
A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from...
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Strayer's Chronicle
In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used ...
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The Notorious Bored Samurai 2
The Satsuma clan conspires with key figures in the shogunate to overthrow the government. However, t...
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Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoi...
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Play it, Boogie-Woogie
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high...
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Onihei's Detective Records
A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill....
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Village of Doom
An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him...
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Grasshopper
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (R...
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The 8-Tomb Village
A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries ...
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Love in the Mud
This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tok...
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The Projects
Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, ther...
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Moonlight Jellyfish
Seiji (played by Battle Royale’s Tatsuya Fujiwara) struggles to look after his younger brother Michi...
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We're Broke, My Lord!
A commoner inherits lordship of debt-ridden Tanjousan Bun. Officials inform him of new role and subs...
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Glorious Fights
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He f...
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Slaughter in the Snow
In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of M...
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Bullying is Costly
An office worker who releases his frustrations by maliciously bullying his good-natured boss has a b...
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Cats on Park Avenue
A story about the lives of young aspiring dancers who strive to create their own musical about stray...
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Tokyo Blackout
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electr...
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Goodbye, Flickmania
Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friends...
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She's In Love With Picasso
Kiriko is a curator at the Hakone Open-Air Museum. She gets caught up in a computer virus incident a...
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Yamagata Scream
High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a...
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Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-viole...
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The Black House
A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the f...
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Ichigo Chips
Ichigo no kakera deals with a female manga artist Ichigo Nekoda (Miyazawa), whose career is heading ...
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25
Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are...
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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya meets a group of outcasts that help her...
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Chateau de la Reine
The hotel Chateau de la Reine is located in Paris, France and it is considered the finest hotel ther...
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The Man in White
After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact ...
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A Homance
A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yak...
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The Abe Clan
A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of...
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Nirvana Island: The Last 47 Days
The movie depicts the confrontation between younger brother Akira Miyamoto (Shunya Shiraishi) and ol...
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Samurai Hustle Returns
Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way...
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Nemuri Kyôshirô 2: Conspiracy in Edo Castle
Sakai Nobunari an Elder in 'Honmaru' (or the main enclosure) and Mizuno Tadakuni an Elder in 'Nishin...
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The Gentlemen’s Alliance
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets sca...
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Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown
Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, ...
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The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion
A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss....
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Falling Camellia
During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...
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Amagi Pass
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-gir...
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So What
In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also pl...
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The International Gang of Kobe
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by U...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destr...
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The New Morning of Billy the Kid
All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-whi...
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Yakuza Ladies Neo
Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in...
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Star Sand
In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American...
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Summer of Demon
A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes....
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Internal Sleuth
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective crimin...
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Super Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade NEO Generations: The Onigashima Warship
Under the impression that they saved the World of Den-O, Tsukasa Kadoya (Kamen Rider Decade) and com...
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Crest of Betrayal
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyal...
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Sure Death 4
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by ...
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A Chaos of Flowers
Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about...
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House on Fire
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his nu...
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Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None
When three bounty hunters accidentally meet in a bar, their stark personalities begin to clash, turn...
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Family Court Probation Officer, Akira Yamanobo
Tokyo Family Court judicial research official Akira Yamanobo is in charge of Tetsuo and Ayano Katase...
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Shooting Stars in the Twilight
Hiromi works in a posh French restaurant. One day, he meets an ordinary-looking old man who has a di...
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Code of Wolves
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of...
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Death Note: L Change the WorLd
"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision eve...
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Lost in Ramen
A suicidal high school student, a ramen shop owner closing shop after the passing of his wife, and a...
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Sweet Revenge
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. Hi...
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Another World
Ko, a man in his late 30s, lives in the countryside with his wife and teenage son. Mitsuhiko, who ru...
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Tale of Young Drifter 2
Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigne...
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Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meet...
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The Sea of Genkai
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean wome...
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Pretenders
In Osaka, Shiromiya will soon turn 40 years old and he is unemployed. He lives with his daughter Yoy...
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Kingdom
Set in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has ...
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Rolling on the Road
George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, ...
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Evil Doers
Hiroki Matsukata plays Ogata, an Osakan restaurant worker that gets sent to prison for murder. The ...
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Izo
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...
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A Sandcastle Model Family Home
An opportune salaryman moves his family into a model mansion for 12 months; unfortunately, they must...
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Memories of a Dog: Daido Moriyama's Journey to Photography
NHK documentary about the renowned Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama, with special focus and inte...
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The Sea Is Watching
O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Aga...
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's large...
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Blade of the Immortal
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted b...
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Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl
When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then...
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The Boss' Wife
The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her h...
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When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes
When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good care of him. She was gentle, but mentally...
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Woman's Trail: Wet Path
A stripper reluctantly returns to her manager and husband with her new lover in tow. The lover tries...
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Spanking Love
Ryo Masuda is a washed up adult video director without a leading actress. Now, he has to find someon...
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Another Side
This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era ...
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Playtime Never Ends
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robb...
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Until Evening
Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, l...
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The Blood of Wolves
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exi...
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Designated Lawyer
Suspicions fall on politician Tagane Seizo over the sale of nationally owned land to a social welfar...
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It's Easier Than Kissing
After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father...
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Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007
A violent fire one evening kills a husband and wife couple and burns their Kazusaya rice shop to ash...
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Threads of Our Hearts
Akito has been the ears and voice of his mother, Reiko, since he was a child. Reiko was born deaf an...
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Time Limit
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank ro...
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Jubaku: Spellbound
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to ...
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Island of the Evil Spirits
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets...
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Break Out
An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional ...
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited
The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a suc...
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Walking Man
Atomu (Shuhei Nomura) was raised by his mother in a poor environment. He is now a young adult, but h...
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Kagerô 2
An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her siste...
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Tomato No Shizuku
With their hair salon business now on track, longtime couple Sakura and Makoto mull over inviting Sa...
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Yakuza Ladies: Companions in Hell
When her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to prev...
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Wolves, Pigs & Men
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh ou...
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Shimanto River
A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He come...
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To the Bracken Fields
A poor village in the Tohoku area has a law that states when a resident becomes sixty years old, the...
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Sada
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and...
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Trick: The Movie
Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko...
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The Negotiator
After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospit...
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Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facilit...
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The Big Bee
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The...
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The Most Dangerous Game
The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap vi...
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Last Friends
Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Tho...
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The Gentle Japanese
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute mo...
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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection com...
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I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each...
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Zatoichi at Large
Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose...
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Pretty Devil Yoko
Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Toky...
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Angry Rice Wives
In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three childr...
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth
A one hour made for TV special. Set in modern Japan, a journalist goes to Innsmouth to investigate p...
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My Grandma
Home-design sales representative Tomohiro lives with his wife and their son. As his job involves hou...
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Dangerous Stories
Three stories with horror and science fiction elements. 1st episode: "The Curse of Tutankhamen" (Tsu...
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Shinsengumi
Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shins...
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Kadokawa Mystery & Horror Tales Vol. 1
MEINICHI Directed By Tomoyuki Akashi Cast: Sayaka Yamaguchi, Asami Mizukawa "Maybe father was rig...
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T.R.Y.
At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shan...
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Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
Biopic of Date Masamune. Young Masamune upon learning of the death of Nobunaga decides that he is th...
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
Katsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film serie...
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The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt...
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Ryuukou Kanbou
The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paran...
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One Missed Call
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the ...
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I Never Shot Anyone
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, ...
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The Blue Danube
The soldiers no longer know why they are at war, and when it even started. Daily and dutifully they ...
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The Motive
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims app...
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Seraphim Night
Directed by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a half K...
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Youth Peony Lantern
Based on "Kaidan Botan Dango" by Sanyutei Encho, a rakugo storyteller who was active from the late E...
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The Central Quicksand
A tremor struck the Information Industry Bureau of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry....
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The Dog Bridegroom
Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and ...
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Howling Village
After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location ...
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Onihei Gaiden: The Night Rabbit
Bandit leader "Night Rabbit" Kakuemon has always kept the rule to "never kill, never rape, never ste...
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The Killing Game
A middle-aged office worker, Masao Okada (Eiji Okada), discovers that his worsening illness is termi...
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Night Terror Ward
Yoko Mizutani, a nurse at Kikumisaka Hospital, a general hospital, is frightened by a series of biza...
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Tale of Young Drifter
Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigne...
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偽りの花嫁
A young wife is frightened that her husband and her father's second wife may be in cahoots with each...
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Japanese Humanity and Justice
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to thei...
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For Those We Love
In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" f...
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Double Clutch
Hiromi Go plays a high school student who needs a role model in his life badly. He's raised by his o...
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Evil Spirit Princess Sakurako
A beautiful girl, haunted by the evil spirit of a woman who was burned at the stake 17 years ago, be...
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Issa
Movie depicts the later life of poet Issa Kobayashi. At the age of 50, he goes back to his hometown....
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HERO SP
Five years have passed since Kuryu Kohei's transfer from Tokyo to Ishigaki, and then to Sapporo. He ...
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The Street of Desire
A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death....
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A Modern Yakuza: The Code of the Lawless
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shi...
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Shin Jidan Koshonin Ura File 2
Insurance firm “special investigations” (the Marutoku unit) tackles a tangled case sparked by a drun...
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